Posts Tagged ‘The Guardian’

Design: Salone del Mobile Milan 2012: Dezeen Studio: Thursday at MOST: “..Zaha Hadid talks about her secret garden installation in Milan, and offers an architect’s take on Milan Design Week 2012, the product designer Yves Behar offers his newest update on what it takes to be fizzy, curator Rossana Orlandi talks about what’s sizzling at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi this year, and the British journalist Justin McQuirk of The Guardian offers a view on hacking in design..

Architecture: Jonathan Glancey’s Passport to the Planet: “..what really matters today is the creation of good homes for millions of people, and the nurturing of towns and cities that are lovable yet distinct from one another. This means turning the shiny, gimcrack world…on its head. It’s time to aim for a world of intelligent, crafted architecture – one that projects a sense of true worth – and to leave the era of limitless aspiration behind..” The Guardian’s architecture and design critic’s final article, after 15 years of a keen eye on design diversity. A bit of a best-of travelogue, with some words of wisdom..

The German architect and designer Jurgen Mayer H. (yes, that’s his middle initial at the end of his name) has recently completed the Metropol Parasol, a 150,000-square-foot mushroom-shaped, mixed-use public plaza in Seville, Spain, made of polyurethane-coated timber, and purported to be the largest architectural structure in the world that is glued together. Rowan Moore has written an article on the structure entitled “Metropol Parasol, Seville by Jürgen Mayer H – review” in the Architecture section of The Guardian, which includes a number of closer shots of the actual construction.

The Metropol Parasol – “a stacking up of past, present and future, of ruins, market, performance space and sky deck”

Looking at a few of the other efforts by J. Mayer H., Felix Burrichter has written a short article for The New York Times, entitled “Jurgen Mayer H. |Pattern Recognition” looking at Mayer’s new book, entitled ““WirrWarr” (which Google translates from the German as confusion, tangle, jumble, chaos, and even promiscuity), which contains a selection of more than 100 encryption patterns, as seen below:

This encryption pattern found on the inside of an envelope; one of many specimens in Jürgen Mayer H.’s collection

The excellent design blog Designboom has published a post entitled, with a flourish, “jurgen mayer h. architects: airport in mestia” looking at Mayer’s Mestia Georgia Airport, a modest, but very interesting example of Mayer’s fascination with asymmetry.